The ARIN free pool runs dry, a new ARIN policy proposal seeks to remove all needs requirements for transfers, the North American IPv4 trading market continues to boom, and implementation of the new RIPE interRIR transfer policy promises to expand the global market.

The ARIN free pool runs on empty, RIPE officially opens the European region to interRIR transfers, and IPv6 continues its upward trend but still only predicted to account for 34% of global IP traffic by 2019.

ARIN and LACNIC are now running neck and neck for most depleted free pool. RIPE’s interRIR transfer policy should be ready for primetime in August and LACNIC is again exploring whether it wants to join RIPE, ARIN and APNIC in the global transfer market.